A patch just out-there will be of little value. It very possibly won't apply to future versions or will become a bug if people do apply it. Bug/patch trackers and code repositories exist for very good reason. Exactly so. But submitting patches to your Distro of choice ought to be fairly easy and let the distro's package manager decide if it fixes something upstream and submit it in a professional way.
No, that won't work. If you expect the distro maintainer(s) to be the gatekeepers of all patches to included packages the system will grind to a nearly complete halt.
It does not seem reasonable that I, joe user, who can read a little bit of C should be submitting patches.
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